Limitations and solutions to the exchange of macrobenthos community data between scientists and CZM managers as shown in the frame of human impact monitoring studies in SW Netherlands

Because of their sessile character and relatively long life-span, benthos integrate environmental fluctuations and influences at a particular place over a relatively long time span. It makes that community data of benthos can be a suitable indicator for changes in environmental quality. The aim of the long-term monitoring studies on benthos at NIOO-CEMO is to obtain insight in the natural development of estuarine and coastal areas and the anthropogenic influences in those areas in order to safeguard natural resources and to allow optimal use of a system’s potentials. As most monitoring program... Mehr ...